FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the Bureau will permanently shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., with the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency slated to move to a new headquarters.
The FBI boss who had once pledged that he’d shutter the facility and turn it into a “deep-state museum” said that the building, which is named for the agency’s iconic founder, will be closed down in a Friday post to X after plans for the move were finalized.
“December 26: Shutting down the Hoover Building. After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility. Working directly with President Trump and Congress, we accomplished what no one else could,” Patel wrote.
December 26: Shutting down the Hoover Building.
After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility. Working directly with President Trump and Congress, we…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 26, 2025
The director advised that the workforce will be moving to the nearby Reagan Building after putting the kibosh on a proposal soaking taxpayers for $5 billion for a sprawling new HQ that wouldn’t be ready for a decade.
“When we arrived, taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn’t open until 2035. We scrapped that plan,” he wrote. “Instead, we selected the already-existing Reagan Building, saving billions and allowing the transition to begin immediately with required safety and infrastructure upgrades already underway. Once complete, most of the HQ FBI workforce will move in, and the rest are continuing in our ongoing push to put more manpower in the field, where they will remain.”
“This decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security. It delivers better tools for today’s FBI workforce at a fraction of the cost,” Patel added. “The Hoover Building will be shut down permanently.”
During his previous career as a pundit, Patel told podcaster Shawn Ryan that if he were ever in charge of the FBI, he’d shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building on his first day.
Kash Patel: “I’d shutdown the FBI Hoover building on Day 1 and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.”
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— Shawn Ryan Show (@ShawnRyanShow) November 19, 2024
“I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one…and reopen it next day as a museum of the Deep State,” he told Ryan in 2023. “And I’d take the 7,000 people who work in that building and send them across America to go and chase criminals…What do you need 7,000 people there for?”
Planning for the building began in 1962, with it being dedicated by then-President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, three years after Hoover died.
“We are ushering F.B.I. headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work,” Patel said in a statement earlier this year. “Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost-effective and resource-efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.”
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